I was watching a retail reno using DIY and econo trades. I figured opening was delayed by about two months. With Yonge / St Clair rents I
don't think they ended up ahead on the score sheet.
Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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don't think they ended up ahead on the score sheet.
Hack
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New windows... New trim.
Trim is part and parcel of the whole deal..
You don't even have to paint the trim if you're going with white.
The way the do installs these days you'll never know they were there... To be honest I was pleasantly surprised at how little mess these was... Maybe I got lucky, but the company I hired and their crew did a fantastic job...
Well so far so good for me. I've visited every few days to check it out and it looks great. Plus many updates along the way from the lead hand & boss. I will admit its my first reno, but I'm confident I've selected a good contractor, other wise I wouldn't have given him the go ahead. He doesn't do dog washes, though that would be a bonus 
We've had a delay in cabinets & windows & doors but the cabinets arrived a week ahead of the adjusted time & are being installed this week.
A lot of the work I've had done I know is beyond my skill/comfort level. I'd just be a little past demo now and not near the end if I did it myself while working F/T. That and I'm sure my wife would be mad at me while working from home.
We've had a delay in cabinets & windows & doors but the cabinets arrived a week ahead of the adjusted time & are being installed this week.
A lot of the work I've had done I know is beyond my skill/comfort level. I'd just be a little past demo now and not near the end if I did it myself while working F/T. That and I'm sure my wife would be mad at me while working from home.
That's awesome that your project is actually going forward. Have heard of so many horror stories it's ridiculous. Lots of no-shows, lack of materials, etc.Well so far so good for me. I've visited every few days to check it out and it looks great. Plus many updates along the way from the lead hand & boss. I will admit its my first reno, but I'm confident I've selected a good contractor, other wise I wouldn't have given him the go ahead. He doesn't do dog washes, though that would be a bonus
We've had a delay in cabinets & windows & doors but the cabinets arrived a week ahead of the adjusted time & are being installed this week.
A lot of the work I've had done I know is beyond my skill/comfort level. I'd just be a little past demo now and not near the end if I did it myself while working F/T. That and I'm sure my wife would be mad at me while working from home.
Looking forward to final updates once it's all done!
My wife isn't keen on me doing the work (if we go ahead with the addition), but I told her it saves us $100k minimum. So she'll make do.
Mad Mike
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It's likely the basement wall on the left is at least 4'. There is probably no foundation wall under the front of your garage (where the door is). If there is a room behind the garage, and the basement under it is a crawl space, the leftmost basement wall is likely only 4'.
Very unlikely there is a floor where you have the purple line.
Mad Mike
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Then you'd end up with a 4' tall crawlspace for $200K. If I recall, OP is a closer to 6 feet than 4' tall.
Installed appropriate support included underpinning left wall to get height.
Mad Mike
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You would have to underpin all walls, the garage floor is likely a couple of feet below the existing first floor, to get 8' under you'd be excavating below the existing basement floor grade.
That's exactly the problem. The existing interior trim matches the rest of the main floor. Anything but what came down will look mismatched and drive me crazy. It's an older profile with a very specific colour/stain/finish.New windows... New trim.
Trim is part and parcel of the whole deal..
You don't even have to paint the trim if you're going with white.
The way the do installs these days you'll never know they were there... To be honest I was pleasantly surprised at how little mess these was... Maybe I got lucky, but the company I hired and their crew did a fantastic job...
Well….found the leak.
As I was cleaning the muck off the wall I released some pressure…
Coming in from a crack/hole on the wall between the garage and the house.
As I was cleaning the muck off the wall I released some pressure…
Coming in from a crack/hole on the wall between the garage and the house.
And a little more digging and we find the source….and old weeping tile.
Spray foam and call the real estate agent?
We dig! It’s about a straight shot 15ft to the drain.
Tomorrow I’ll rip out 2 or more stairs, clean it up, and start hammering out a path for the weeping tile to the drain. Not much else I can do.
Unless I just plug the weeping tile and let the water go the other way, but I assume there’s a blockage there.
Might be calling @sburns for some tips as he just did some digging.
The thought crossed my mind.
It looks like a clean open end. Nothing else is there. Only thing I can blame Kevin on this one is not capping it. Who knows.
It's 12ft to the drain, at 1" drop for every 8ft that's a drop of about 1.5" over the length.
I just plan on cutting into the ground, putting in a weeping tile pipe, and letting it free flow into the drain. I'll try to get a camera in there but that won't be easy and I assume the pipe is collapsed somewhere along the line. I'm just surprised that it's coming INTO the house where it should be flowing away from the house.
EDIT: Considering it's a straight shot, wondering if it's better off to use a hard white PVC line, or the big 3-4" weeping tile lines.
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sburns
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Lol, I mentioned before just write kevin on the parts you want broken and it will be smashed up in no time!!!
I've dug up my area twice before, so the last 2 times I just smashed it with a sledge hammer, and the concrete will break, since it was a previous patch. But I can't remember, the first time, if I rented a cutter from HD or did the drill holes method (holes every 1" along a path on 2 sides, then smash it) if you have 15 ft then cutting and smashing might be the way to go.
Now I am curious as this mystry is getting closer to being solved is the stairs where the orange bucket is? As I can see here the internal wrong dimple board.
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@sburns yes the bucket is where the stairs are. I took the picture when I was measuring a straight shot from the drain.
The dimple board is Kevin’s fix for internal weeper as behind me there was a leak years ago. You can actually see where Kevin did the repair as the concrete floor isn’t even where he trenched it.
I’m still curious how tf a weeping tile is literally free flowing into the house. The location makes no sense to me as it’s about 6-8” above the floor level, and not connected to anything. The basement would have to fill to 10-12” of water for it to start going out. Unless that’s where the sump was planned. Who knows….
The dimple board is Kevin’s fix for internal weeper as behind me there was a leak years ago. You can actually see where Kevin did the repair as the concrete floor isn’t even where he trenched it.
I’m still curious how tf a weeping tile is literally free flowing into the house. The location makes no sense to me as it’s about 6-8” above the floor level, and not connected to anything. The basement would have to fill to 10-12” of water for it to start going out. Unless that’s where the sump was planned. Who knows….
sburns
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Ah ok so that makes some more sense now. With the weeper ending at the wall next to the stairs, and the other wall next to it is also the dimple.
I wonder if that room was original to the house, is it and addition? Its either the weeper went straight through and that room never was there before, or they left a weeper there doing some outside work and it goes nowhere. I guess you'll know if you clean it out and if you can see down it. But I guess if you have water there is must be connected to something or water is just collecting in the cavity of the weeper.
At least now you shouldn't have to rip up the outside of your house!
